Short Haunts - The Shadow in the Cemetery
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Some childhood memories stay bright.
Others return like a shadow at the edge of the mind.
In this Short Haunt, John takes us back to the summer of 1984, when he and his closest friend Paul were teenagers in Chatham, Kent — spending long days on BMX bikes, exploring parks, old tunnels and the local cemetery. What began as an ordinary summer afternoon became something neither of them would ever forget.
Sitting near the old graves, the two friends noticed a figure emerging from the direction of the church and greenhouse. At first, they thought it might be a caretaker. But as it drew closer, they saw something far more unsettling: a jet-black human-shaped figure, wearing what looked like a top hat and long coat, with no face, no detail and no visible legs.
As the shadow moved through the graves and began following them, the afternoon turned into a frantic escape — one that left both witnesses shaken for decades. Years later, after finally deciding to tell the story, John experienced something in the same area that made him wonder whether the shadow had ever truly gone.
Atmospheric, personal and deeply unsettling, this is a story of childhood freedom, old cemeteries, shared terror and the memories that never quite leave us.
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